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iPhone, iPad Workshop

Free iPhone, iPad Quick Start Workshop
When: Tuesday March 20th at 2:30 PM at MCAR (Monterey, CA)
Follow along – iphone will be projected to screen

What we will Cover:

  • 10 Things to do to save/maximize battery life
  • Banners, Alerts & Sounds, what works best
  • How to update your software
  • Back up to icloud or iTunes – which is best for you and how
  • iPhone, iPad Life in the clouds with no computer
  • Password Protect Your iphone, ipad
  • Where the heck are my files?
  • Practice Downloading Free Apps
  • Six Great Free Apps for Realtors
  • Scan documents anywhere
  • Update Your Apps
  • Never Lose Your Apps
  • Tell Siri What to do (iphone 4S)
  • No Siri, Use Dragon Dictates for your note taking
  • Note Pad,  New Notes, Add to Notes, Find them
  • One EZ tip for better photos.
  • Camera – quick draw, HDR, Grid Lines…
  • Demo of Chicago Title’s Great Free App – Rene Ayers

Please Call or email to reserve your spot

Eileen Begley (831) 277-9939
EzTechTraining (aka Coldwell Banker Associate)

Top Reasons IOS 5

Top Reasons to upgrade to IOS 5

I recently upgraded my iPad 2 to IOS 5 and I totally love it!
My top reasons:

Audio button click  to take a photo – much easier to hold the pad steady now.

Notification Center – I have customized my notifications. I miss seeing text messages. Now I am notified twice. My text, missed phone calls, and email display on my lock screen for quick viewing!  I can scroll thru my email messages from my lock screen to see it anything important came in. Little banner alert appear at the top of my screen to let me know what I have missed.

 “Reader” in Safari – look for it at the top of some websites. Tap on it to reduce the clutter for easier reading – especially on small iphone screens.  Tap on the arrow (2nd image) to open screen to add to Reading list for later.

Photostream in iCloud – My photos are uploaded everywhere! They appear on my ipad 2, iphone and desktop PC

The Store – I set the Store settings and now when I download from itunes to my PC, the app appears (wirelessly) in my iphone and ipad (if compatible for both). Got to Settings> Store

**Back up your iPad or iPhone before upgrading to IOS5 – You can not uninstall if you have problems but should be able to revert to prior saved back up.
I upgraded my iPad2 with no problems.

To upgrade – connect to computer with itunes and select upgrade

Zday iPhone Game Review

Review of Zday  Zombie Apoclypse Game for iphone, ipad

 

Fun game for the iphone and ipad. Nice graphics and nice background music. Prepare for that dreaded day when Zombies take over the world. How will you do, will you survive the dreaded zombies? Find out by playing this game. Is it worth the $1.99? Watch the video review and find out!

Virus Raids Bank Account

Paranoid About Banking Online?

New reasons to be paranoid about banking online. New Virus may raid your bank account. You can’t just watch it closely though as it will “spoof” your online statement and hide their activity. Read full article  Now first your computer has to be infected with this virus. You should be running a Anti Virus protection program. You should be running a anti malware/spyware program also. A good one that is free is Malware Bytes.

Of course these programs don’t always catch everything. So being a cautious, not complacent online banker I logged in to my account and set up some free alerts. Most major banks now have free alerts where you can be emailed or receive text messages. Decided it would be good to know when my balance drops too low. (Yeah should have done that one before!)  Also set up alerts to notify me if more than $1 is wired anywhere as this not a regular activity! Set up alerts (you decide a good dollar amt for you) if debit card is used, ATM and others. They might spoof your account, but unless they can or take the time to do so, disable your alerts – you will still be warned!